Jacob's Shipwreck
Subtitle: Diaspora, Translation, and Jewish-Christian Relations in Medieval England
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781501703072
Subjects: Judaism, relations, christianity; Christianity and other religions, judaism; Intellectual life; Multilingualism; Hebrew literature, history and criticism; Latin literature, history and criticism; Great britain, church history, 1066-1485
Description: "A study of how Jewish and Christian writers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries rewrite, translate, and circulate ancient texts, primarily the post-biblical literature of the late antique and early medieval periods. The project focuses on these hybrid medieval Latin and Hebrew texts at the point when they enter into either dialogue or disputation with each other over religious and geographic identities in England and Northern France; this dynamic is especially evident during the period of the Crusades. Some of the wide variety of texts and genres include medieval Latin and Hebrew reworkings of Josephus' Jewish War, the Anglo-French Play of Adam, and the Latin "Romance" of the patriarch Joseph's Egyptian wife, Aseneth"--